 Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all armed ; a certain aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the west; And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts: But I might see young Cupid's fiery...  Notes and Queries - Page 2031867Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1850 - 586 pages
...west ; And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts ; But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the watery moon ; And the imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.2 Yet marked I... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - Elocution - 1851 - 570 pages
...west ; And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon: And the imperial votress passed on In maiden meditation, fancy free ; Yet marked 1 where the bolt of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 772 pages
...west ; And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts ; But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the watery moon; And the imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet marked I where... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 746 pages
...west; And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the watery moon; And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. ACT II. Yet marked... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - Floriculture - 1855 - 296 pages
...west ; And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts. But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the watery moon — And the imperial votaress passed on In maiden meditation fancy-free ; Yet marked I... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 626 pages
...west; And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the watery moon ; And the imperial votaress passe'd on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet marked I... | |
 | Robert Tyas - 1859 - 472 pages
...; And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, , As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the watery moon ; And the imperial votaress pass'd on, In maiden meditation, fancy free. Yet marked I where... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 326 pages
...from his bow, * Tbe allusion is to Queen Elizabeth. As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts ; But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the watery moon ; And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy free. SHAEESPEARE. ARGUS... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1869 - 420 pages
...west; And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts: But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the watery moon; And the. imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. 1 Yet marked I... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1895 - 404 pages
...West; And loosed a love-shaft madly [sic] from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts ; But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the wafry Moon ; And the imperial Votaress passed on, j>t maiden meditation fancy-fret. Ytt marked I It... | |
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